Friday, April 30, 2010

“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software completely configurable so it can do whatever I need it to.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

Thursday, April 29, 2010

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.”

        — Sam Brown

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

Monday, April 26, 2010

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick”

        — Mao Tse-Tung

Sunday, April 25, 2010

“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”

        — W. H. Auden

Saturday, April 24, 2010

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

Friday, April 23, 2010

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

Thursday, April 22, 2010

“To the people who’ve got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn’t invent it!”

        — Marcus Brigstocke

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

“During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Haikus are easy,
but sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator

Monday, April 19, 2010

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

Sunday, April 18, 2010

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

Saturday, April 17, 2010

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”

        — Rodney Dangerfield

Friday, April 16, 2010

“He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kinda glad he hit you.”

        — “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

Thursday, April 15, 2010

“What little food grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.”

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.”

        — American Proverb

Monday, April 12, 2010

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”

        — Ellie Wiesel

Sunday, April 11, 2010

“Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind. To withstand the world, that’s what it takes. All that steel and stone is no match for the air, my friend. What doesn’t bend breaks.”

        — Ani DiFranco

Saturday, April 10, 2010

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

Friday, April 9, 2010

Ode to traffic jams
how I detest this time sink
where are flying cars?

        — Marissa (@dj_marz)

Thursday, April 8, 2010

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

“On the eighth day God created twitter and then all hell broke loose.”

        — Marcus Brown #

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

Monday, April 5, 2010

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you’”

        — Erich Fromm

Sunday, April 4, 2010

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

Saturday, April 3, 2010

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

        — Scott Adams

Friday, April 2, 2010

“Friends are God’s apology for family.”

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sometimes seventeen
syllables ain’t enough to
express a complete…